Raksha Dave (born 22 August 1977) is an archaeologist and TV presenter, and is the current President of the Council for British Archaeology.
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| Born | 22 August 1977 |
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| Alma mater | University College London |
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Early life and education edit
Dave graduated with a degree in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology in London in 1999.[1]
Personal life edit
In April 2017, Dave married Nigel Jeffries, who is a medieval and post-medieval pottery expert at the Museum of London.[2]
Career edit
Dave worked with a commercial archaeological unit, primarily excavating in London with the Museum of London Archaeology Service.[1] She also excavated at the World Heritage Site of Catalhoyuk in Turkey, and sites in Texas and Puerto Rico.[3]
Dave featured regularly on Time Team between 2003 and 2013 as a field archaeologist.[4] She was a presenter on season 7 of Digging for Britain, broadcast in 2018.[1] She presented the BBC Learning Zone Ancient Voices programme on prehistory, broadcast in 2015,[5] and co-presented Pompeii’s Final Hours: New Evidence for Channel 5.[1]
Other TV work includes The Bone Detectives (2020) and Digging Up Britain's Past (2020).
Dave is an advocate for increasing the diversity of archaeologists,[6] was a trustee for the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) and is a patron of its Young Archaeologists Club.[1] In July 2021 CBA announced that Dave had taken up the three-year presidency of the organisation.[7]
She is a co-founder of the archaeological social-enterprise DigVentures.[8]
Dave is a research affiliate of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f "Raksha Dave | Pitt Rivers Museum". www.prm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
- ^ "Raksha Dave". Marathi TV. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ "Raksha Dave | Pitt Rivers Museum". www.prm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ^ "Inside the Mind of… Raksha Dave". The Heritage Journal. 12 April 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ^ "BBC Two – Ancient Voices". BBC. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ^ Dave, Raksha (23 May 2016). "Archaeology must open up to become more diverse". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
- ^ "Broadcaster Raksha Dave will champion innovation and inclusion in her new role as President of CBA" (Press release). Council for British Archaeology. 18 July 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "Raksha Dave". DigVentures. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
External links edit
- Raksha Dave at IMDb